Highly Specialist Pharmacist Respiratory COPD

Band 8a: £33,414 - £37,609

Part time hours: 22.5 per week

Permanent contract

Job Purpose

Leads the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to the respiratory directorate in accordance with the pharmacy care group:

1. Provides pharmaceutical advice and develops Clinical Pharmacy Services to Respiratory in order to optimise patient benefit from treatment with medicines and ensure the safe, efficacious and cost-effective use of medicines. 
2. Undertakes risk management and ensures compliance with medicines legislation.
3. Be the named pharmacist for the COPD service
4. To be responsible for financial savings within respiratory medicine
5. To deliver an education and training programme relevant to role

Key Dimensions

1. Capital and Revenue Budgets – Contributory impact on the medicine’s budgets for Respiratory
2. Staff Numbers – Supervises and manages rotational pharmacists and tutor trainee pharmacists

Shared Core Functions

1. Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort. Manage the production of the required deliverables and control risks.
2. Support team members to deliver on their functionally relevant objectives through offering advice, guidance and support as appropriate.
3. Ensure that resources are used effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures
4. Liaison with Senior Professionals and related functions to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated
5. Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the shared services as required
6. Maintain and continuously improve specialist knowledge in an aspect of Health Service which significantly contributes to the Trust’s stated objectives & aims

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